Structurer - Commodities Index, VP in Slough

The purpose of the job is to help build on the recent successes in the Citi Commodity index space, in order to make Citi a leading player in this space, through:

• developing cutting-edge systematic investment strategies, using Commodity futures and options as the building blocks, working with trading, sales, and structuring;
• proposing sophisticated analyses on existing and new indices to improve their marketability;
• improving the resilience of the platform through working with trading, IT, quants;
• helping to originate business through pitching the ideas to sales and potentially clients.

Commodity indices are a growing business at Citi, in a rapidly evolving market: sophisticated investors are increasingly interested in more complex risk premia-based approaches. The resulting business opportunity is significant – but the need for increasingly sophisticated indices and analyses mean that our team is too lightly staffed to capture the opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of commodity investment strategies and products, collaborating with sales, structuring, trading, research, IT and quantitative analysis.
• Working to enhance robustness and efficiency of index platform, moving towards more automated processes and applying an industrial and scalable approach to the full product lifecycle.
• Backtesting and in-depth analysis of investment ideas proactively and in response to investor queries.
• Working with various departments (legal, sales, trading, research, IT and quantitative analysis) to turn ideas into products which can be sold and traded.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Significant experience in commodity index development is an absolute pre-requisite.
• Experience of structuring and executing complex index trades.

Skills:

• Individual must be highly quantitative and analytical.
• Critical: in-depth programming skills and experience of using a wide variety of analysis tools to perform complex modelling.
• Critical: knowledge and understanding of commodity markets.

Qualifications:

• Quantitative / technical degree, i.e. maths, physics, computer science, from a top-tier university.

Competencies:

• Individual must be highly driven, self-motivated.
• Team player.
• Keen to work with other groups to develop best in class products and grow the index business.

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